Seminars
Geographies of Knowledge
Seminars and public lectures within the Geographies of Knowledge research group of the Department of Geography.
There are no forthcoming seminars scheduled at present.
Previous seminars
- 14th March 2024 - Naï Zakharia, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge:
Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest. Details… - 7th March 2024 - Aleksis Oreschnikoff, Doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki:
Beyond knowledge-building: Research infrastructure, technology, and the practice of Arctic (in)security. Details… - 22nd February 2024 - Stephen Lezak, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Gates scholar:
Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory. Details… - 20th February 2024 - Professor Christine Bichsel, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg:
From the margins of the Third Pole: the geopolitics of cryosphere in Tajikistan. Details… - 15th February 2024 - Liz Walsh and Morgan Ip, postdoctoral researchers, ERC Arctic Cultures Project, University of Cambridge:
Arctic Museum Cultures: A Critical Perspective on Heritage Practices in/about the North. Details… - 8th February 2024 - Johanna Sophie Bürkert, Ph.D. fellow at Københavns University, Law Faculty:
The role of international law in socio-ecological resilience to climate change of coastal Arctic communities - An international law study of the case of Arctic bowhead whaling. Details… - 12th December 2023 - Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iverson, Zdenka Sokolíčková:
Svalbard: Four Times Faster (Registration LInk Below). Details… - 30th November 2023 - Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI:
End of term Polar social gathering. Details… - 27th November 2023 - Professor Alejandra Mancilla, Professor Peder Roberts, Ms. Amelia Urry:
Antarctic Research in the Anthropocene. Details… - 21st November 2023 - Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami:
Unpacking Colonial Ties: Self-determination in Inuit Nunangat, Canada. Details… - 16th November 2023 - Svenja Holst (Bielefeld University); Anna Ott (Syke and University of Lapland); Anna Varfolomeeva (University of Oulu); Marlene Payva (University of Lapland):
Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere. Details… - 2nd November 2023 - Dr Carol Payne, Professor of Art History, Carleton University:
Visual culture masterclass – Arctic Expedition Photography: Critical Perspectives, Inuit Returns. Details… - 26th October 2023 - Deb Wood, PhD candidate and Sarah Airriess, research associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University:
“Tragedy was not our business”: Individual emotional experience and the Terra Nova Expedition. Details… - 12th October 2023 - Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI:
Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS. Details… - 15th June 2023 - Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI:
End of term Polar social gathering. Details… - 8th June 2023 - Po-hsi Chen, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies:
Oceanic Ecotopia, (De) colonizing the South; China’s First Encounter with Antarctica, 1882-1906. Details… - 25th May 2023 - Amanda Althoff, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University :
Human-insect relations and material culture in Western Alaska. Details… - 11th May 2023 - Alice Oates, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute:
People, places, politics and science in the historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present. Details… - 17th March 2023 - Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI:
The Arctic and Antarctica in popular novels. Details… - 9th March 2023 - Dr Victoria Nuviala Antelo, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, Archive SUR – Archive of Architecture & Habitat in Antarctica :
Insulating the wild. Culture-Nature relationship through the lens of Antarctic Architecture. Details… - 9th March 2023 - Makoto Takahashi:
Picturing the Invisible. Details… - 7th March 2023 - Alice Oates (University of Cambridge):
Placing Halley research station in the history of UK Antarctic science, 1960 to present. Details… - 2nd March 2023 - Dr Pauline Pic, École Supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), University of Laval:
Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces. Details… - 21st February 2023 - Christine Bichsel (University of Fribourg):
[POSTPONED] Russian and Soviet glaciology of the Third Pole. Details… - 7th February 2023 - Jean de Pomereu (Marie Curie Research Fellow):
Antarctica is not one thing. Details… - 26th January 2023 - Emilie Canova, SPRI - University of Cambridge:
Europe's cartographic 'Arcticulation' of the North: The use of maps in official European and national Arctic policies.. Details… - 19th January 2023 - Bert de Jonghe, Harvard University and Dr Mia Bennett, University of Washington:
Book launch: Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation. Details… - 30th November 2022 - Natasha Gardiner, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand:
Stakeholder perspectives on knowledge exchange practices at the Antarctic science-policy interface. Details… - 28th November 2022 - Speaker to be confirmed:
Climate Repair and Governance: Science and Ethics Panel Discussion. Details… - 17th November 2022 - Maximilien Zahnd, Hauser Post-Doctoral Fellow, NYU School of Law:
Rurality, Indigeneity and the Alaska Income Tax, 1949-1980. Details… - 10th November 2022 - Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI:
Introduction to PHaSS for new students and members of staff. Details… - 13th October 2022 - Sandy Campbell, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, Canada:
Decolonisation of Arctic library and archive metadata. Details… - 26th May 2022 - Henrietta Hammant, Anthropology of Heritage PhD candidate, University of Reading; Elias Angele, PhD candidate Department for Contemporary East European History and Culture, University of Bremen:
Histories of Antarctica. Details… - 19th May 2022 - Dr. Julia Olsen:
Arctic coastal communities and increasing shipping activities: local impacts and adaptive responses. Details… - 17th May 2022 - Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen):
Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay. Details… - 12th May 2022 - Dr. Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund:
A tale of two price-lists: economic topography and colonial governance in the context of the Royal Greenland Trading Company. Details… - 5th May 2022 - Accessibility In Polar Research (@AccessPolar):
Our experiences: Why Polar Research needs to be accessible. Details… - 5th April 2022 - Speakers' details are shown below:
Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium . Details… - 10th March 2022 - Sam Kramer (William and Mary):
Isolate and Assimilate: Settler Colonialism in the Canadian Arctic (a bipolar perspective). Details… - 10th February 2022 - Juan Lucci, University of Cambridge:
An Assessment of Progress to Decarbonize Antarctic Stations. Details… - 8th February 2022 - Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge):
Singing the Universe: Kant’s aesthetic and indigenous Siberian pop. Details… - 27th January 2022 - Romain Chuffart, University of Durham:
Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protection in the Arctic. Details… - 25th January 2022 - Ilona Kater (University of Cambridge):
The changing world of reindeer: People, climate and forests in Northern Fenno-Scandia. Details… - 7th December 2021 - Marc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) :
The Greenland Self-Government's enhanced agency in Arctic politics. Details… - 30th November 2021 - Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University):
Defence and Security in the Arctic. Details… - 25th November 2021 - Speaker to be confirmed:
Short film discussion session: Utuqaq. Details… - 16th November 2021 - Speaker to be confirmed:
Curating the Arctic: Northern Museums and Decolonization. Details… - 11th November 2021 - Fiona Amery, University of Cambridge:
What is left unsaid within images of the aurora borealis? The use of linguistic strategies in deciphering the ‘Flaming Letters on the Dark Vault of Night’ in the First International Polar Year (1882-3). Details… - 2nd November 2021 - Peter Martin (University of Cambridge):
The ‘Origins of the Inuit’: Indigenous Marginalisation within a Transnational Debate. Details… - 28th October 2021 - Stephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI):
The Arctic at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the Narration of Apocalypse. Details… - 21st October 2021 - Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality. Details… - 12th October 2021 - Prof. Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University:
“What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s”. Details… - 14th September 2021 - Professor Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University:
What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s. Details… - 24th June 2021 - Nina Döring (IASS) and Elle Merete Omma (Saami Council):
Improving the relationships between researchers and Indigenous rights holders in the Arctic - What needs to change in funding?. Details… - 3rd June 2021 - Mia Surridge & Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum, Cambridge):
Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum. Details… - 27th May 2021 - Marisa Karyl Franz (New York University):
Mariinsky Post as a Meeting Place: Affective Encounters and Ethnographic Records. Details… - 11th May 2021 - Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge):
[Cancelled] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North. Details… - 6th May 2021 - Sophie Duveau (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris):
Science in Practice: Sharing the field with natural scientists. Details… - 11th March 2021 - Marc Jacobsen (SPRI):
Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention. Details… - 9th March 2021 - Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge):
Change, continuity and value in Svalbard. Details… - 25th February 2021 - Laura Seddon (University of Durham):
The challenges and opportunities of working across the physical and social sciences. Details… - 24th February 2021 - Sam Saville (Unviersity of Cambridge):
Towards Humble Geographies . Details… - 11th February 2021 - Daniela Portella Sampaio (City, University of London):
Fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean: methodological challenges with stakeholders’ interviews. Details… - 10th February 2021 - Julia Schubert (University of Bonn):
Science-Politics Alliances and the Career of Climate Engineering: Making Sense of a ‘Bad Idea Whose Time has Come’. Details… - 9th February 2021 - Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University):
[POSTPONED] Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective. Details… - 28th January 2021 - Eva Crowson and Elise Nyborg (University of Cambridge, SPRI):
Rethinking the Virtual: Towards Digital Decolonisation in the Scott Polar Research Institute. Details… - 27th January 2021 - Efram Sera-Shriar, Alex Rose, and Rupert Cole (Science Museum, London):
Curating Environmental Change at the Science Museum. Details… - 26th January 2021 - Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge):
Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance. Details… - 16th December 2020 - Inuk Silis Høegh, Independent filmmaker:
Sumé: the Sound of a Revolution (film pre-screening and discussion). Details… - 3rd December 2020 - Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester):
SCAR in the 60s: The successes and failures of science diplomacy in Antarctica. Details… - 2nd December 2020 - Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University):
An auto-ethnographic account of a hitchhiking journey from Gateshead to Poland. Details… - 1st December 2020 - Max Jones (University of Manchester):
Exploration, Celebrity and the Making of a Transnational Hero: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram Expedition. Details… - 26th November 2020 - Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI):
Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII. Details… - 18th November 2020 - Tom Simpson (Cambridge University):
The climatic pivot: Mapping water, people, and empires in Central Asia, c.1850-1930. Details… - 12th November 2020 - Charlotte Schoonman (AWI), Anna Guasco (University of Cambridge), Karla Boxall (SPRI):
Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic. Details… - 4th November 2020 - Johanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University):
Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses. Details… - 3rd November 2020 - Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge):
Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture. Details… - 29th October 2020 - Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge):
What’s in a model? Shifting multi-species relationships in Sakha (Yakutia). Details… - 15th October 2020 - Alice Oates (University of Cambridge) and Osnat Katz (University College London):
Finding connections across space, time, and disciplines: Space and Antarctica. Details… - 13th October 2020 - Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University):
Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: Or, What Whales Can Tell Us About Writing History . Details… - 29th September 2020 - Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden:
Why we should develop Arctic Humanities. Details… - 1st September 2020 - Professor Dolly Jørgensen, Faculty of History University of Stavanger, Norway:
The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway. Details… - 11th June 2020 - Eleanor Peers and Frances Marsh (Polar Library, Scott Polar Research Institute):
[online] Polar humanities research in the Covid-19 pandemic: Where does the SPRI library fit in?. Details… - 4th June 2020 - Alexis Rider, University of Pennsylvania:
[online] On Blue Ice: Antarctic Meteorites and Deepening Planetary Time. Details… - 14th May 2020 - Ragnhild Feng Dale (Western Norway Research Institute):
[online] Elusive Resources and Community Expectations: Petroleum Narratives by the Norwegian Barents Sea. Details… - 12th May 2020 - Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge):
[POSTPONED] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North. Details… - 6th May 2020 - Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon:
Offshore oil, unruly icebergs, and the war against unpredictability in the North Atlantic Ocean. Details… - 5th May 2020 - Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon:
Toward climate justice -- Should we rethink our narratives of Arctic glaciers and icebergs?. Details… - 30th April 2020 - Johanne Bruun (University of Cambridge):
[online] Researching the field at home: the field and its doubles. Details… - 12th March 2020 - Alice Oates (University of Cambridge):
[Cancelled] ‘No work before breakfast’: Putting people first at Halley Bay research station, Antarctica. Details… - 3rd March 2020 - Max Jones (University of Manchester):
[POSTPONED] Fridtjof Nansen’s FRAM expedition and the Making of a Transnational Hero. Details… - 19th February 2020 - Dr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge :
Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory. Details… - 19th February 2020 - Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge):
Roundtable discussion on 'Intersectionality and International Polar Research'. Details… - 11th February 2020 - Sofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford):
Constructing the Other: representations of Arctic native communities in Russian regional museums. Details… - 6th February 2020 - Peter Martin (University of Cambridge):
Roundtable discussion on “Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies”. Details… - 30th January 2020 - Frances Marsh and Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge):
Roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonising the Polar Library: Moving forward’. Details… - 28th January 2020 - Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge):
Gender and 20th century Antarctic fieldwork: Constructing and dismantling the 'ice ceiling'. Details… - 16th January 2020 - Zoia Tarasova (University of Cambridge):
Human Anxieties, Bovine Solutions: Political Subtexts of Native Cattle Conservation in Northeastern Siberia. Details… - 5th December 2019 - Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Umeå University):
Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic. Details… - 27th November 2019 - Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College:
From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies . Details… - 21st November 2019 - Ed Armston-Sheret (Royal Holloway, University of London):
The Selected Body: Investigating Ideas about Nerves and Constitutions in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration. Details… - 19th November 2019 - Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University):
From Arctic statehood to self: State personnel’s articulations of Arctic identity in Norway, Iceland, and Canada. Details… - 14th November 2019 - Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge):
From Epic Bards to Pop Stars in North-East Siberia: Song as Patriotic Education. Details… - 13th November 2019 - Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway:
Accumulate to circulate: cultures of exchange in nineteenth-century museums. Details… - 12th November 2019 - Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex:
Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health; Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease. Details… - 7th November 2019 - Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr and Ellis Doeven (Visiting Artists, Alaska):
Introducing Tikigaq - Living with the Whale in the Arctic. Details… - 31st October 2019 - Prem Gill (University of Cambridge):
"Minorities in Polar Research"-Network. Details… - 29th October 2019 - Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham):
Meat to Mittens: a short history of survival science and extreme physiology in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Details… - 24th October 2019 - John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge):
Science Policy Workshop Report/Arctic Circle Assembly 2019. Details… - 16th October 2019 - Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester:
Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?. Details… - 15th October 2019 - Willy Topkok (Independent Artist, Alaska):
Life in Alaska as an Inupiaq Artist. Details… - 16th August 2019 - Aki Tonami (University of Tsukuba):
Japan and its Arctic identity: Forming a narrative about the region. Details… - 20th June 2019 - Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong):
The Sublimity of Sublimating Ice: Ruins of the Anthropocene. Details… - 13th June 2019 - Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum):
'Museum Entanglements: acquisitions, engagement and exhibitions at the Polar Museum. Details… - 6th June 2019 - Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia):
Antarctic Building and Dwelling: the Poetics of the 'Wide, White Page'. Details… - 23rd May 2019 - Elizabeth A. Walsh (Department of Anthropology):
‘They Should Do It Themselves’: Settler Affect and Indigenous Sovereignty on Alaska’s North Slope. Details… - 16th May 2019 - Otso Kortekangas (Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology):
‘Indigenous’ avant la lettre. The Origin and Livelihoods of the Sámi in European Scholarly Thought 1930-1960. Details… - 14th May 2019 - Dorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik):
Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions: An Inter-American Perspective. Details… - 9th May 2019 - Dina Brode-Roger (KU Leuven) & Sam Saville (Aberysthwyth):
Identity in Change/Svalbard Futures - with an introduction to the Svalbard Social Science Initiative . Details… - 25th April 2019 - Maximilien Zahnd (University of Cambridge):
Can Taxation Help Indigenous Peoples Remap Space?: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Kluti Kaah. Details… - 14th March 2019 - Ruth Maclennan (SPRI):
Ivan Chai and King Crabs. Details… - 12th March 2019 - Nancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen):
Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective and the Art of Sealskin Sewing. Details… - 5th March 2019 - Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University):
'As Far North As Whale Hunters Go': The Medieval Arctic Environment, Experienced and Imagined. Details… - 28th February 2019 - Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University):
Partnerships in Mining: Stories, Emotions, and the Quest for Stable Relationships in the Greenlandic Mining Sector. Details… - 14th February 2019 - Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge):
Roundtable discussion on "Gender in Polar Research". Details… - 13th February 2019 - Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE:
Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation. Details… - 31st January 2019 - Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge):
Antarctic Heritage and International Relations: Commemorating the Ross Sea Party. Details… - 30th January 2019 - Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London:
Mapping the knowledge landscape: rethinking adaptation to climate change in the Western Ghats. Details… - 29th January 2019 - Jon Oldfield (University of Birmingham):
The role of the Arctic in the development of Soviet climate science. Details… - 18th January 2019 - Test:
Test. Details… - 13th November 2018 - Adrian Howkins (University of Bristol):
Antarctic Mosaic: Integrating Science and History in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Details… - 6th November 2018 - Richard Powell and project team (University of Cambridge):
ERC ARCTIC CULT Launch Presentation. Details… - 30th October 2018 - Brice Perombelon (University of Oxford):
From animism to speculation: representations of geopower among the Dene of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada. Details… - 9th October 2018 - Richard Powell (University of Cambridge):
BOOK LAUNCH: Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences. Details… - 2nd July 2018 - Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania) and Carolyn Philpott (University of Tasmania):
Singing in the Wilderness: Antarctic Sledging Songs of the 'Heroic Age'. Details… - 28th June 2018 - Morgan Seag and Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge):
POLAR2018: Conversations and outcomes. Details… - 14th June 2018 - Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum):
The Polar Museum: Museum store tour and discussion. Details… - 13th June 2018 - Ruth Maclennan:
Screening of Ruth Maclennan's film: Call of North. Details… - 7th June 2018 - Astrid Nonbo Andersen (Danish Institute for International Studies) :
"This isn’t South Africa" – on using the analytical tools of memory studies and transitional justice in Greenland. Details… - 1st June 2018 - Stine Alling Jacobsen (University of Oslo):
Cryolite Ghosts - histories of absence from Ivittuut. Details… - 24th May 2018 - Peter Martin (University of Oxford):
Supposed-to-be-Land: Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea. Details… - 24th May 2018 - Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge):
Equal Opportunities on Ice: Sex discrimination legislation and British Antarctic science. Details… - 14th May 2018 - Nina Doering (University of Oxford):
'They don't know about the people who live here': Local non-participation in extractive resource management in Greenland. Details… - 11th May 2018 - Cameron Mackay (SPRI) and Jamie Sandall (SPRI):
Current MPhil dissertation research. Details… - 10th May 2018 - Professor Esther Turnhout, Professor in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University:
Space of Biodiversity Expertise. Details… - 3rd May 2018 - Vegard Nergård (UIT The Arctic University of Norway):
The plural parent system in Saami reindeer herding families. Details… - 26th April 2018 - Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI):
Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Planning Discussion. Details… - 23rd April 2018 - Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania):
Brand Antarctica: Advertising and the South. Details… - 1st March 2018 - Professor Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge:
What sort of challenge is climate change? Fifty years of editorialising in ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’. Details… - 19th February 2018 - Rick Knecht (University of Aberdeen):
Climate change, archaeology and tradition in an Alaskan Yup'ik Village. Details… - 9th February 2018 - Anna Stenport (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Scott MacKenzie (Queen's University, Kingston):
The Anxiety of Ice: Visualizing Climate Change and Arctic Moving Images. Details… - 8th February 2018 - Professor Cheryl McEwan, Geography Department, Durham University:
Protean geographies: Plants, politics and postcolonialism in South Africa. Details… - 5th February 2018 - Thomas F. Thornton (University of Oxford):
Sacred Mountains as Flood Refuge Sites in Northwest North America. Details… - 1st February 2018 - Mike Hulme:
The Cultural Functions of Climate. Details… - 29th January 2018 - Bryan Lintott (Scott Polar Research Institute):
Scott’s and Shackleton’s Huts: Antarctic Heritage and International Relations. Details… - 18th January 2018 - Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles:
Racial banishment: Old and new forms of urban transformation in the United States. Details… - 17th January 2018 - Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles:
Postcolonial theory and the project of urban studies. Details… - 27th November 2017 - Peter Martin (University of Oxford):
Re/Fram/ing Geography: Fridtjof Nansen at the Royal Geographical Society c.1888-1914. Details… - 6th November 2017 - Jean de Pomereu (Research Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute) :
The meaning of Indlandsis: a cultural history of ice sheets. Details… - 16th June 2017 - Bryan Lintott (SPRI):
The Central Intelligence Agency and Antarctica: 1947-59. Details… - 13th June 2017 - P.J. Capelotti (Professor of Anthropology, Penn State University):
Polar Opposites: American and Norwegian voices in the exploration of Franz Josef Land. Details… - 2nd June 2017 - Elizabeth Walsh (Social Anthropology, Cambridge):
Cultural institutions and Iñupiat identity in Utqiaġvik. Details… - 26th May 2017 - Victoria Herrmann (SPRI):
Making a broader impact with polar research. Details… - 12th May 2017 - Alex Partridge (Archaeology, Cambridge):
Census making and “Becoming Peoples”. Details… - 5th May 2017 - Henry Anderson-Elliot (SPRI) and Morgan Seag (SPRI):
Architectures and built environments in the Polar Regions. Details… - 28th April 2017 - Michael Bravo (SPRI):
Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Welcome Back. Details… - 10th March 2017 - Johanna Grabow (Leipzig University and SPRI):
Antarctica in contemporary fiction. Details… - 3rd March 2017 - Bryan Lintott (SPRI):
Quantarctica: Polar humanities and social science database. Details… - 24th February 2017 - Penny Goodman (SPRI):
Education in Inuit communities in Canada. Details… - 17th February 2017 - Matthew Jull (University of Virginia):
Arctic architecture and design. Details… - 10th February 2017 - Corine Wood-Donnelly (SPRI):
Roundtable discussion: Current events in the Arctic and Antarctic. Details… - 3rd February 2017 - Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI):
Conducting fieldwork in the Arctic. Details… - 27th January 2017 - Morgan Seag (SPRI):
Arctic and Antarctic research at Cambridge: Polar Social Sciences Workshop planning. Details… - 25th November 2016 - Alex Partridge (Archaeology, Cambridge):
Arctic sovereignty and museum collections. Details… - 18th November 2016 - Penny Goodman (SPRI):
Interdisciplinary social science and humanities perspectives on climate change in the Arctic. Details… - 11th November 2016 - Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI):
Reframing the conservation of polar bears in Svalbard. Details… - 28th October 2016 - Morgan Seag (SPRI):
Polar Research at Cambridge: Research updates and group synergies. Details… - 19th October 2016 - Michael Bravo (SPRI):
Interdisciplinary polar social sciences and humanities at Cambridge. Details… - 9th February 2016 - Richard Powell (University of Oxford):
Writing the North? Geography and the disciplines of Circumpolar exceptionality. Details… - 9th February 2016 - Roman Sidortsov (Scott Polar Research Institute):
Wrestling With Polar Bears: Risk, Power, Law, and Oil and Gas. Details… - 19th January 2016 - Claire Warrior (National Maritime Museum) and Charlotte Connelly (Polar Museum, SPRI):
Double-bill: Polar Representation in Museums. Details… - 17th November 2015 - Shane McCorristine (SPRI):
Polar Exploration and the 'Spectral Turn' in the Humanities. Details… - 17th November 2015 - Bryan Lintott (SPRI):
The Myth of Timelessness in the Polar Regions. Details… - 6th November 2015 - Brendan Plant (Downing College):
Volcanoes and Boundary Issues in International Law. Details… - 20th October 2015 - Dr. Michael Bravo, Geography and SPRI:
Reflections on Analysis and Authorship in Polar Worlds. Details… - 22nd October 2014 - David Turnbull (Melbourne University):
Indigenous Sovereignty beyond Nations . Details… - 13th October 2014 - Niels Einarsson (Stefansson Institute, Iceland):
Fishing rights and financial capitalism in the Arctic: From common property to private ownership assets. Details… - 1st May 2014 - Dr Kamrul Hossain (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland):
Arctic Maritime International Law. Details… - 24th April 2014 - Marionne Cronin (University of Aberdeen):
The Topsy-Turvy Arctic: Navigating the Polar Airspace. Details… - 6th March 2014 - Peter Schweitzer (Austrian Polar Research Institute):
The social life of Arctic transportation networks. Details… - 20th February 2014 - Yaël Schlick (Queen's University at Kingston):
"Periodizing Modern Antarctica, or What is the Legacy of the Heroic Age?". Details… - 13th February 2013 - John MacDonald, Carolyn MacDonald, Wim Rasing:
The Journals of William Hooper: Inuit ethnographer and evangelical. Details…
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